MEMBER CONFERENCE NEWS AND SPEAKERS:

Symposium Convening Soon in New York City, Austen and Byron: Together at Last.
The Byron Society of America and the Jane Austen Society of North America will jointly host the symposium, Austen and Byron: Together at Last. The symposium will take place on 03 May 2008 at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Speakers include BSA Board Members Jonathan Gross (DePaul University) and Peter W. Graham (Virginia Tech). To register, view details here. Non-members of BSA and JASNA are invited to attend the symposium.

"Fans and Fiction"
Rachel Brownstein (CUNY Graduate Center and Brooklyn College)

"Secret Friends of the Author: Austen in Class and Out"
Marcia Folsom (Wheelock College)

"A Tale of Two Abbeys: Austen, Byron and Ambiguities of the Gothic"
Peter Graham (Virginia Tech)

"Austen and Byron in Regency England"
Jonathan Gross (DePaul University)

Featuring a Dramatic Reading by Tony-award winning actor Kathleen Chalfant (Angels in America, Wit, Dead Man's Cell Phone)

Byron Society of America Joins College English Association
The Byron Society of America is now an Affiliate Organization of the College English Association. The College English Association welcomes submissions for presentations at the 2009 meeting of the association in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the theme of Design. The conference recently convened in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. The Byron Society of America sponsored a conference-wide beverage break to celebrate our new connection to CEA. At the conference, new student member Justine McGhee (University of Rochester) presented a paper entitled 'Torturing Nature': Devastation and Sublimity in 'Alastor' and The Last Man. Robin Hammerman (Stevens Institute of Technology), CEA Board Member and BSA Director of Membership and Academic Services, delivered a paper entitled Byron's Gangster Passages: Don Juan at Shooter's Hill. Long-time BSA member and CEA Past President Ann Hawkins (Texas Tech University) moderated the panel entitled, Textual History, Pedagogy, and Practice and delivered the paper, Teaching Textual Histories. The CEA 19th Century British Literature Division Chair, Robin Hammerman, encourages members of the Byron Society to become speakers or special panel chairs at the 2009 conference in Pennsylvania. Please direct inquiries to robinhammerman@byronsociety.org.

Boston Athenaeum Presents a Book Talk by Lord Kenneth Baker
Boston area Byronists are invited to attend Lord Kenneth Baker's book talk on George III: A Life in Caricature, which will be held at the Boston Athenaeum on Wednesday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m. Tickets are $10. For additional details about the event, please go to http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/spring2008htm. Lord Baker is the author of a number of books, including various anthologies of poetry and George IV: A Life in Caricature.

Member Ray Stevens Speaks at Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature
Long-time Society member Ray Stevens spoke recently about Byron and Conrad at the Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature. The conference took place at Wingate University in Monroe, North Carolina. Professor Stevens kindly distributed information about the Byron Society of America to conference attendees. If you are speaking at a conference and would like to spread the word about our Society, contact membership@byronsociety.org to request a package of informational material.

Looking Ahead: BSA at MLA
The Byron Society of America, an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, will offer two panels at the 2008 MLA annual convention in San Francisco. BSA member Tom Mole (McGill University) and BSA Board Member, Peter W. Graham (Virginia Tech) will preside. The BSA will shortly invite members to view a detailed copy of both programs through the BSA website.

 

BSA 2008 NEW MEMBER DRIVE

The Byron Society of America encourages members to recruit or sponsor at least one new member for 2008. Sponsors will be acknowledged in special correspondences to new members. Kindly direct inquiries regarding member sponsorship and recruitment to membership@byronsociety.org.

 

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS:

Timothy Alperin Diana Birchall Nancy Derbyshire Evan Gurney Dimitri Karkoulis Rachel Klein Diana Koretsky Maria Kuchukidze Mariya Lazarev Nat Leach Zachary Lenz Justine McGhee Jamie Meyers Lorne Mook

Aaron Ottinger Adam Pinti Tilottama Rajan Jane Ranzman Ward Sandler Jon Sachs Mark Schoenfield Sheila Spector Jeffrey Spicer Susan Soroka Andrew Warren John Weigel Stephanie Weiner Elaine Wood

 

NEW! MEMBER PUBLICATIONS:

Peter Cochran, ed. Byron at the Theatre.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.

Jonathan Gross, ed. The Sylph by Georgiana, Dutchess of Devonshire.
Chicago: Northwestern UP, 2007.

Donald M. Hassler and Clyde Wilcox, eds. New Boundaries in Political Science Fiction.
Columbia: South Carolina UP, 2008.

Christine Kenyon-Jones, ed. Byron: The Image of the Poet.
Newark: Delaware UP, 2008.

Cheryl Wilson, ed. Byron: Heritage and Legacy.
NY: Palgrave, 2008.